Time goes back a little bit.

About half an hour before the start of the raid on Nugus Manor, an order from Nugus Manor was sent to a forward base in Burbisland through magical communication. Then, twenty minutes later, a force of about 3,000 men secretly set out from this forward base and advanced towards the Gray Shadow Forest in the north, and then officially entered the Gray Shadow Forest a few minutes before the Nugus Manor raid began.

There was a wind blowing.

There was a hint of moisture in the wind that was far wetter than usual, and it was faintly solemn.

The Forest of Gray Shadows is a relatively vast forest in the southern region of the Dabion Kingdom, and its material richness is also the most important economic benefit in the southern region. It's just that for some reason, this territory has not been completely mastered by the lords of the two territories, so due to some psychological factors, both sides have acquiesced to the third party's stop, which is also the reason why the demon hunter was able to completely gain a foothold in this gray shadow forest.

Therefore, in terms of forest area alone, it is not impossible to completely cover up the traces of 3,000 people.

After all, these people were just passing through the Forest of Gray Shadows, not trying to stay here.

Soon, the figure of one of the last soldiers disappeared at the edge of the forest.

This force of 3,000 men consisted of a regiment of 30 mages and a regiment of 3,000 infantry.

The specifications of the equipment used by the infantry regiment proved that it must have been a well-crafted army of some noble: all the soldiers were dressed in blue light armor, with long swords hanging from their waists, and a light round shield on their backs. None of the equipment was new, it bore the marks of battle, and each soldier had a murderous look on his face, acting as scouts for the soldiers who roamed the perimeter of the large army. It is also a vigilant face, and the attention is highly concentrated.

The Forest of Gray Shadows is now actually in the hands of the Kingdom of Dabion.

Hela had scattered dozens of nails in the area of the forest towards Panda Lead, so if there was any disturbance on Sean's side, both Yedby and Burbis would be the first to receive the news.

So in a certain way, this escort group that entered the Gray Shadow Forest was actually okay even if it didn't send scouts to guard the surrounding area. However, the commander of this corps did not do this, but chose to continue to be vigilant, and then linked to the battle traces on the soldiers of this corps, from which it can be deduced that the actual combat effectiveness of this corps is definitely not low. At the very least, it should be a quasi-fourth-class army.

Such an army, with the assistance of a mage regiment, can often burst out with combat effectiveness that exceeds that of the average fourth-level army. What's more, the equipment used by this army also makes them very suitable for fighting in terrain such as forests, which is also an extremely impressive bonus to their combat effectiveness.

Across the entire Forest of Grey Shadows. Even if it is the rhythm of a rapid march, it will take at least about two days.

However, considering the physical fitness of those mages in the mage group. Under normal circumstances, if you can travel through the entire Grey Shadow Forest in four days, you can reach the frontline battlefield of Yedby. That's a good result. As the interim commander-in-chief of this team, the middle-aged man with a vicissitudes of life obviously had a bigger concern: when the battle transfer order was issued, he would receive confidential information, including that William. Yale's report and stats on how to break through three lines of defense in just three days, and most importantly, the entire Derby Leader's battle chart today.

From the map, he could easily analyze that if the large army that had invaded the Yedebi Territory continued to advance to the front line of the battlefield, then they would be engaged with the main force now stationed in the Yederbi Territory in three days at most. Although he already knew that the order from the Southern Theater Military Headquarters was to shrink the entire Yederby Territory's defensive line. However, if they engage the main army at this time, they will be attacked by the enemy as soon as they pass through the Gray Shadow Forest.

The commander, Webber, did not think that with their strength of 3,000 men and thirty magicians, they could be a surprise force to attack the rear of the enemy.

The best and most brilliant result. It is they who share part of the pressure on the troops on the front, so that the line of defense that is about to collapse can be temporarily re-established, or a balance of power can be maintained. Of course, as a surprise attack, including the thirty mages, I am afraid that none of them will be able to leave, and it is a lucky thing to be able to leave a whole corpse.

If it was really for this strategic goal, then it would not be them, but several other troops.

So about half an hour after entering the Gray Shadow Forest, Webb gave the first order: the whole army marched for six hours.

A seasoned commander will not leave a unit on a rapid march for a long time, as this will make a unit less combative, especially in the event of a sudden encounter, which will make the situation even more terrifying.

The six-hour march took place without incident, which eased Webb's heavy mood a little.

After a six-hour march, Webb ordered an hour of rest, followed by a normal four-hour march.

This type of march was not unfamiliar to soldiers, especially in wartime. But for those thirty mages, this way made them cry bitterly, and many mages even began to lose their temper because of this, but in this special situation, Webb couldn't say anything, it was impossible to delay the rhythm of the entire army in order to take care of these thirty mages, and eventually lead to the deterioration of the situation on the battlefield led by Yederby, right?

Therefore, after Webb moved out of Hela's name, these mages were still dissatisfied, but in the end they did not continue to say anything.

In fact, if it weren't for these mages, Weber would never have rested here for an hour, so he knew very well that if he rested too long, the greater the sequelae of physical fatigue after a rapid march, and from all indications, the decline in combat effectiveness was even higher. But fortunately, the 3,000 people who followed him this time were all veterans. He had survived countless battlefields of blood and fire, so he didn't need to worry about his own control and regulation.

The only thing he had to worry about was the thirty mages.

After a short break, the unit was on the road again, and after a normal four-hour march, the unit was again given a short break, this time reduced to half an hour. Although the mages' grievances were obviously greater, Webber didn't bother to say anything more, and when the half-hour break was over, Webber immediately ordered the whole army to continue to set off. This time they will march for two and a half hours.

After twelve and a half hours of marching, they finally stopped.

On this day alone, they had already covered a third of the distance in the Forest of Gray Shadows.

Although there is almost no sunlight in the Gray Shadow Forest due to the tall canopy, Webber, who has a keen sense of time, can still easily tell that it should be night outside.

So set up camp and rested. That's what they need to do at this time.

Soon, however, all the mages had a new bad news: they only had six hours to rest.

But this time, the thirty mages didn't even have the strength to complain. They simply ate some food and then fell asleep. After a while, there was a faint snoring. Today's marching rhythm is too hard for these mages from the Wizard Association, after all, the long-term pampering has long made them forget the hard work of learning magic, although they still maintain the ability to fight, but basically because they are more accustomed to the team combat mode of the mage group, they gradually forget their own way of fighting.

It's hard to wait until these mages don't make noise. Webb finally had time to breathe a sigh of relief.

"My lord, I noticed that something was wrong in the forest." But before Webber could take out the dried meat from the food bag he was carrying, a man he had arranged as a scout came running, "It's strangely quiet tonight. ”

"What do you mean?" Webb's expression became a little nervous.

"Within a hundred meters of the vicinity. There is no trace of any Warcraft. The scout said in a deep voice, "And I've noticed a lot of people, judging by the light of the pace, it should be the demon hunters in action." Just ......"

"Just what?" Webber was a little puzzled, "The level of the demonic beasts on this side of the Gray Shadow Forest is generally not high, and the threat to ordinary people is indeed not low, but once a large-scale force enters, these low-level demonic beasts will not come to us for trouble." Especially since we're still an army, as long as we don't provoke those damn demons over there, not even that big lizard will come out of this forest. ”

"My lord, the problem of Warcraft may be easy to explain, but ...... Demon hunters in the Forest of Grey Shadows almost never act after dark. The scout was clearly very knowledgeable about the situation in the Grey Shadow Forest, "and...... Based on observations, we have found that almost all of the demon hunters who are still active are high-level demon hunters. They looked like they were clearing the area, and under normal circumstances, these demon hunters would have chosen to avoid it as soon as they found out that our regular army had entered, and even if they were hunting, they wouldn't be so close to us. ”

"There's a conspiracy?"

"My subordinates aren't sure." The scout quickly bowed his head.

He was just a scout, and his responsibility was to report truthfully about what he found and what he saw, and it was not his job to make any other judgments.

Then there was a long period of silence.

But in any case, as the interim commander-in-chief of this force, Weber must also be responsible for the situation of the entire team. Therefore, he soon strengthened the number of night watchmen, and the size of them more than tripled, although this would affect the combat effectiveness of the troops in the future, and even lead to his battle plan being implicated, but he also knew that the value of thirty mages was far higher than that of their legion, so he did not dare to take risks.

Among the combat orders he received, he had to prioritize the safety of the mage regiment at the first time.

To put it mildly, the three thousand of them are actually not much different from cannon fodder, that is, slightly more advanced cannon fodder.

During the night of Weber's fear, the imaginary raids and conspiracies and even scuffles did not materialize, which made Webb's mood slightly better. But what followed was a sense of helpless emptiness, because the scale of the vigil that was suddenly strengthened last night caused the combat effectiveness of the entire army to drop by at least two percent. This is still his conservative estimate, so the original plan to reproduce yesterday's marching rhythm today is naturally impossible to implement.

According to Weber's plan, they would cross the entire Grey Shadow Forest in three days, and then get a good rest of ten hours on the night of the third day, and appear at noon on the fourth day on the flank of the main force of Dabion, now stationed under the leadership of Yedby, if everything went according to his assumptions, then at this time they could not only play the role of surprise soldiers, but even carry out a counterattack because of the arrival of the mage regiment, and at the worst could inflict a heavy loss on the enemy.

But now. He had to revise his battle plan, and if he wanted to give the entire army a good rest before leaving the Grey Shadow Forest, then they would appear on the battlefield on the fifth day, and unless the enemy had not yet attacked, their appearance would be like a sheep sent into the tiger's mouth. There is no value other than contributing battlefield feats to the other side.

A whole day's march. Webb was constantly thinking about the fastest and most advantageous battle plan. But until nightfall when the whole army began to rest, he still did not come up with a complete plan, which made him feel a little irritable.

"It's business as usual."

In the end, Weber had no choice but to give such an order.

The wind, getting stronger.

The humidity in the air was more pronounced, and this time there was a faint hint of fish.

For these battle-hardened soldiers. They could immediately tell that the smell of blood was bloody, and if the wind could convey this smell of blood, what kind of killing would have to be caused to have such a result!

Webb was immediately awakened.

And the scouts who sent out of Lu also quickly brought a reply: those high-level demon hunters didn't know why Lu Dao had carried out another bloody slaughter here in the Gray Shadow Forest. It seems that several tribal-sized wolves were slaughtered, and then a material treatment was carried out on the spot, and the smell of blood emanated from the corpses.

Hearing such a reply, Webb's brow furrowed.

Demon hunters are known to almost never cooperate, and if they do, they must be assured. Being able to slaughter several tribal-sized wolves in one fell swoop is not something that a few demon hunters can do, and according to the scout's report, there are more than fifty high-level demon hunters involved in this operation, and some of them seem to be injured, but the scouts don't dare to get too close, mainly for fear of causing misunderstandings.

For the Gray Shadow Forest, the strength can only be called a high-level demon hunter when he reaches the upper silver realm.

And the gathering of more than fifty high-level demon hunters was by no means simple.

Webber immediately thought of the overlord in the Gray Shadow Forest: the Thunder and Fire Two-Headed Lizard.

Only this behemoth is worthy of more than fifty demon hunters joining forces, and someone must have paid a lot of money to buy some part of the materials of this behemoth at this time. And the offer was even enough to make these demon hunters temporarily abandon their prejudices and hostility and choose to cooperate.

Thinking of this, Webber's heart relaxed slightly, he did not order the vigil to be strengthened, but he also did not cancel the existing vigil scale.

The whole makeshift camp did not change in the slightest, like a calm lake, without a single ripple.

It's just that Webb didn't know that all the changes in the situation in this camp had already fallen into the eyes of one person.

Taking advantage of the gloomy environment of the Gray Shadow Forest and the obscuration of the leaves, the person who calmly stood on a treetop not far from Webb's camp was none other than the person Sean trusted and relied on the most.

William. Yale.

His already calm face was even more smiling at this moment, and the drunken blush on his face and the gently raised corners of his mouth looked particularly charming and charming in this darkness.

It's just a pity that no one can see William's current appearance.

"This commander is very cautious, the same kind of man as Stalin, and an enemy like this is very difficult to defeat in any surprise tactics on a frontal battlefield, because their steadiness and prudence force any enemy of theirs to defeat them must attack from the front with dignity." William's voice revealed a little excitement, "This is also the reason why the last time Stalin was stationed on the side of Burbis, he was able to defeat enemies who were far many times larger than him." It is impossible to wipe out the forces under the command of any such commander without paying a heavy price. ”

"What do you mean, my lord...... Capture him alive? Standing behind William was Bannock.

This barrier paladin now follows behind William like William's shadow, and although his strength has not yet broken through the Golden Realm, Sean does not mind investing a lot of supplies in him. This makes him at least not powerless when facing the next golden powerhouse.

With the former veteran demon hunter with William at his side, William couldn't even know anything about the entire Grey Shadow Forest. In fact, after breaking through the three defenses of the Yedby Leader a few days ago, William secretly entered the Gray Shadow Forest with a personal guard led by Bannock, and with the help of Bannock's knowledge of the Gray Shadow Forest, they successfully avoided all the nails that Hella arranged in the Gray Shadow Forest.

So in fact, no matter which unit entered the Grey Shadow Forest, or when they entered, the moment they thought of taking the route through the Grey Shadow Forest to enter the Yedby Territory, it was tantamount to announcing that they had crashed headlong into the cobwebs that William had already wove into it.

"No need." William shook his head. "It is enough to have one Stalin, and another person who is comparable to Stalin in talent and ability, is not a good thing for us, but a burden and ...... Burden. ”

Bannock nodded thoughtfully.

"Let's do it."

"Yes." Bannock replied in a deep voice, and then he mimicked the sound of a bird beast unique to the Forest of Gray Shadows. A soft whistle sounded.

After a moment's silence, a series of voices began to sound.

If you listen carefully. It can be found that the place where these voices are heard happens to surround the entire camp.

But it's a pity. Everyone, including Webb, simply didn't notice this.

It wasn't until the first arrow broke through the air and pinned a magician to the ground that the whole camp boiled like boiling water.

But for the weary magicians, the surprise came too quickly. The arrows that had already been aimed at them rained down like raindrops. In this wave of arrows, more than a dozen magicians were shot directly before they had time to react, and the number of soldiers who died to protect these magicians was even greater, but even so. Nearly ten mages were still injured in various ways.

The only magicians who survived were less than five!

When Webb woke up and saw the scene in front of him, he only felt a rush of blood rush to his brain, which made him almost faint as soon as his eyes went black.

The most important mage group, because of exhaustion and a little negligence, directly lost twenty-five people in a wave of arrow rain!

Why does the Forest of Gray Shadows have archers?

But the question only came to his mind, and he immediately found the answer.

Regular archers are definitely not able to exert their due combat effectiveness in a place like the Gray Shadow Forest, so there is only one type of person who can shoot such accurate arrows here in the Gray Shadow Forest, those high-level demon hunters!

Why do these demon hunters dare to attack them!?

Webb looked incredulous.

He had the impression that the Demon Hunters, no matter how arrogant they were, never dared to clash with any army. After all, with the military formation and cooperation of the regular army, the lone ranger-like demon hunters will not have any advantage at all, and the final fate that awaits them will inevitably be death.

It is precisely because of this consideration, so since last night, although he has heard about the large-scale actions of high-level demon hunters, Weber's own sense of superiority as a soldier or a soldier has not made him really pay attention to these demon hunters. In his opinion, increasing the number and range of the night watchmen was enough to value the demon hunters, and even vaguely revealed that there were regular troops in the vicinity.

If those demon hunters were smart enough, they would have chosen to stay away.

But now!

The rain of arrows continues!

Although these arrows were a little sparse, each arrow that broke through the air would inevitably lead to the fall of a soldier forever, which made Webb feel a wave of mad rage.

It's just that this anger comes and goes quickly.

And after the anger wears off, Webb is greeted with a wave of fear of death.

Because in his field of vision, a large number of regular army soldiers began to appear.

These soldiers have completely formed an encirclement and completely encircled them all.

The soldiers in front of Webber did not have any banners, but just by glancing at the equipment and clothing of these soldiers, Webb already knew the origin of this army.

Thundering Edge.

One of the most terrifying and powerful armies of the female demon from Tonis Fortress!

At this time, the only thought that remained in Webber's mind was why this army, which terrified the entire kingdom of Dabion, would appear here! (To be continued......)

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